The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1913, Page 22

x LAWYER, CLERK OF JUDGE PARKER ENDS LIFE BY GAS George F. Parker, No Relative of Jurist, Founé Dead by Fellow-Lodger. FAMILY NEAR BOSTON. Befriended by Judge When He Came Here Four Months Ago. George F. Parker, @ lawyer, who had deen for some time in the office of Alton B, Parker, ut was no relative of the former candidate for the Presidency, killed himeelf with gas yesterday in his room at No. 181 West Seventy-third atreet, @ome months ego Parker, who was about forty, came to New York from Brookline, Mass., where he lived with wite, Mre, Gertrude Parker, and thelr five children, He formerty wee @ Practising lawyer in New Hampshire, where he performed eome legal service for ex-Judge Parker. On arriving io New York he sought the ald of Judge Parker and obtained desk room ta the latter's offices at No. lll Broadway, and Judge Parker also threw some work his way. J. T. Crawford, who oceupted @ room fn the West Geventy-third street house, Gotected escaping ges yesterday and traced it to Parker's room. He lay on the bed dead, @ rubber tube, attached @2 an open gas jet, in his mouth, Among Parker's effects was a letter @om tis wife in which she expressed fegret that he was unatle to spend Cerisumas Day with her and the chil- @ren. The ietter eaid that @ package ‘would de brought him dy parcel post, ‘whieh would reflect the love and esteem fa which he was held by his wife and eatdren. A letter found tn the room signed by Alton B. Parker and dated Dec. 10 recommended Parker to any one who G@esired the services of = competent lawyer. The tone of this letter indicated that ex-Judge Parker could no longer @ive Parker employment. Crawford eaid that at one time Parker ead epoken enthusiastically of setting wp for himself in New York and send- (ag for his wife and children, Of late, howev. Crawford said, Parker had been despondent because of the neces- gity of getting work outside ex-Jud Varker’e office. Reseoe Peck, ex-Judge Parker's part- mer, said last night that as far na he was not connected with the George F. Parker, the man who wrote the memoire of Grover Cleve- fand and was active in the sffaire of the Demooratio party. Parker Told His Services Would Hot Be Needed After Jan. 1. ) BOBTON, Dec. 2%.—George F. Parker ‘wes born in Springfield, Mi thirty- eight years ago. In 1900 he was gradu- ated from Boston University Law School. He married, twelve years ago, Mise Gertrude C. Smith of Hartford, Conn, daughter of Sheriff Edwin J. Smith of Hartford County. He established his family last June in ‘an apartment at No. 45 St, Pau! street, Brookline, and in August went ow York to take a temporary position tn the office of Judge Alton B. Parker, Recently he had been informed that owing to no business showing up his @ervices would not be required after the favet of the year. —_—"—_ BROUGHT WET MAN IN, Giant Wou Leave F. Mee Station Except | Into the t Sixty-elghth street police station last night came John| Ebling. six feet two, carrying a little man on his back. “Heb, Lieutenant, give this fellow ae night's lodging,” said he, swinging his protege onto the rail in frony of the desk. “He's a bit wet, within and) without.” | ye don't board folks | arrest them,” anewere! th Ebling gravbed his companion and was | @tarting off again, Lieut, MeGrath | @ecided that it was too wet outmde for | the little fellow and locked him up on @ charge of intoxication, He muttered that he was Fred Goets, but gave uv efdsess. Wdiing went home tm Po- Safety, Time-Table Tompkins #— (Pronounce It Slowly While Waiting for Your Train.) —# MISSED THE 4.59 =" I'LL HANE TO TAKE THE Git | Manhattan Field Scene of Foot- ball Battle Between Sixteen Lively Young ‘Women. ‘The first game of soccer on record between women in this city was played at Manhattan Field when two teams of the St. George Field Club met. The re- sult was a tle, each side scoring a goal. Maybe you don’t think a woman can Klok (with her feet we mean), but if you had been at Manhattan Field you would have seen sixteen who not only knew how to, but did kick @ football all over the lot, And four of the sixteen did their kicking while wearing skirts. The others wore bloomers and if they kicked a Uttle better perhaps they probably felt ® bit more ohilly than thelr draped lster-piayers, But then again they didn't take the aptils that the players wearing ekirta did. The latter eoon found that eoccer football when played in skirts is not the most comfortable fame in the world to play. It was a hummer from atart to finti The players had plenty of sport out of the game and the spectators had as much again, Before the game started the players had their pictures taken, But thie delay didn't bother the crowd. for once the game wan under way they were glad they waited, Team A scored the first goal of the contest when Mrs, Sedgwick got the ball In a scrimmage and sent {t into the net before Miss Rudd, the goal on Team B, could stop tt. This tally wae made tn the first few minutes of play, although Miss Kilminster had narrow: ly missed scoring for Team A before this, It was the only tally of the first half of the ame, and Team A’s follow. ers were confident of victory. There had veen plenty of intended ed in the frat period, some tumbles and misplays, but the spectators gave the women @ rousing cheer when came out for the final period of the Team B soon began to force mat- and & free Kick on @ penalty t Team A, Mra. Molyneaux, who & ters aga had gone tn as @ substitute for Miss Carr, saved the day for her team. Mates When she scored on the free kick, er ting the e W, Tennant refereed the sane, and Weeause four members of hia family , two on ach wide, there Was no fon bein of hie de partial re GRONING Holland, Dec. %~A fon of Premier Cort van der Linden and four others were killed and twelve were injured slamproved y = ST.G ee) ~SOCKER TEAM IN TS CHILDREN CARRIED | MAKES BED ON TRACK, SAFELY FROM HOUSE | BUT PUTS NEW SHOES OF SMOKE AND FIRE) OUT OF DANGER PATH rs snes kn tsi Hot Coals Start Blaze in the Dumbyaiter of Apartment and Cause a Panic, Somebody in the five-story apartment house at No. 29 West One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street, where twenty families dive, put hot coals in the dumb- walter last night in getting rid of ashes. The dumbwaiter caught fire at the Sround floor, The flames swept up the shaft to the third floor before tenants Giecovered that the buliding was ablaze, Then there were yells of “F rush was made to the str halla were so filled with smoke that Many persons on the upper floors were cut off and had to take to the fire eacapes. On the fifth floor were Frederick Wag- hie wife and their children, Ethel, | nine, and Elsie, ten. The four were con- fused by the smoke and had to be carried down @ fire escape by Patrol- men Seery and Corley of the Lenox avenue station. On the way down Mrs. Wagner, a large woman, fainted, she t with diMouity, r of No, 262 West One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street waa under @ fire escape when a lad- der broke and fell on him, cutting his head severely, The police said that seventy-five children had to be carried from the house. None of them was dressed, and because of the driving rain and wind they suffered, The fire was put out without much lo _——>——_ SAVE GIRL’S CHOPPED ARM. Successfally Treat t ce Fracture, Mise Jennie Ackerly Haff, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs, Mayland Haff, of No. 108 | Grove atreet, Hempstead, who chopped | ner lower arm tw ix times w | hatchet on Tuesday night, was « erday that the doc inuch Nassau Hospital able to on hey arm and wou Bole to mave it bone which was broken Was set, No |. ved, although through the arm. Mr, Valentine, Mise Haff's fance, apont yesterday with her in the hospital but no mention was inale by eitner of the occurrence, The young girl will probably recover uniese bleed poisoning ad . Undismayed by Cold, Athletic Soccer Girls Do Mighty Football Kicking; Result a Tie ACTION.---. Mr. Jefferson, Serene With Christmas Cheer, Saved by Fender, Then Locked Up. Before Henry Jefferson of No. 510 Amsterdam avenue, who had overlooked | yesterday afternoon, of a Christmas c ‘bration, went cozily to sleep at 7 o'clock last evening in a drenching rain on the) Harry Marvin, nothing in the w: car tracks In Broadway, Hundred and Bighteenth centre of the str: He took that precaution beca had on @ new pair of shoes which he wanted to treat with ca: As to his head, which he pillowed on the outside rail, and his legs, which he the inside rail, Henry stretched acrot seemed to have no care. James Looney of No, 499 Wei Hundred and Thirtieth street, who tn the darkness caught a glimpse of a body lying across the car tracks tried to rouse H, Jefferson, but th merely turned on his downy couch and went on sleeping. A northbound car, of | #hip sank the youthful husband pleaded |which Matthew Ryan was motortrian,| ith his bride to leave him and save ¢ up so rapidly that It could not be had © stopped until the fend | Henry from his resting plac | When Patrolm he had @ scalp wound not been damaged. sewed up in | GAVE HER BABY POISON, | secween'servia Mistook | Disinfectant ticed it WaMu polaonous disinfeciant propnees by BEVIS “ONE: Srense” ina The frightened mother ran into the | street for Policeman O'Brien, who San aL LAke called an ainbulance from Linouln ttos : i pital, Dr, Schlasin took the baby ut top WE dou died opeed to the hospites wishin an hour, between One| Marvin, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mar- Hundred and Seventeenth and One| vin, and Mr. and Mrs, Kenneth Marvin, etre took precaution to rest his feet on the stone coping of the parkway in the in Hauerschmidt of TraMc Squad C picked the sleeper from the fender it was found that although new shoes had Henry's scalp was the Knickerbocker Hos- pital and he was sent to the West One | Hundred and Twenty-fifth street station on a charge of drunkenne: Pe ah ain for Cough MISSED THE 7.40, EH? WELL ITS ALL RIGHT — TUL MAKE THE 8,39! — G ‘BOY DIES IN ROW | WITH RIVAL AFTER | GIRL REFUSES HIM Police Believe Heart Disease Killed Theodore Keicher as He Reached House. GAVE BLOW, THE RAN. William Tilley Disappears Af- j ter a Fight and Dead Boy's | Family Want Investigation. An autopsy will be performed to-day on the vody of Theodore Keicher, , eighteen, un employee in the office of the New York Telephone Company, No. S81 Willoughby street, Brooklyn, who died yesterday after an altercation on the street. avenue, Brooklyn, after an early dinner yesterday, for a walk. At Forty-thinl street am! Third avenue he met an ac- talk. j avenue, Brooklyn, has told the police that the other was William Tilley, @ | young man who lives in Fiftieth street, Brooklyn, and is employed in the Morse Iron Works, at the foot of Fifty-sixth street. | “I couldn't hear what they were talk- |!ng about,” O'Connor told Detectives Hyland, McDonough and Lohman, of WOOMED BY TANG, SHE MARES FREND OF CHLOHEO DAYS seemed to want to avold trouble, Sud- denly Kaicher let drive with his right fist and hit Tilley in the face. Then | he turned and ran, Tilley following. “Keicher got to the f nt of the house | Forty-elghth street and there, Tilley overtook hin, ‘Tilley didn’t strike any blows that J saw, but when Kelcher ran into the house Tilley followed him. “I followed them Into the house and on the third floor landing T came upon Kelcher, He was on te floor and ap- of Mrs. Daniel V. Marvin and Horace De Camp. parently unconscious. 1 didn't Til. Mrs, Daniel V. Marvin, widowed on/|ley again and notified the poilce.’ her honeymoon by the sinking of the} On the arrival of the police they} Titanic, was married to Horace De Camp, a childhood friend, in the Har- lem Presbyterian Church at 4 o'clock found Kelcher dead, A doctor made aj minute examination of the body and, finding no bruises or other marks of | violence, expressed the opinion that the youth had died of heart disease. But the parents of the dead boy, Mr. and Mrs, Charles Keicher, and his sis- mother of Daniel V./ter, Marie, hia brother, John, re- fused to believe that he had died from heart disease and insisted upon a fur- ther investigation. The bride was attended by her sister,| The detectives learned that young Mra. Brock Solomon, who came from|Ketcher was formerly attentive to Miss London for the wedding. Lynne De| Tessie Filber, daughter of Mr, and Mra, Camp was his brother's best man. The | George Filber, of No. 333 Forty-seventh Rev, John L. Caughey performed the|+trect, He gave her a ring and sald he ceremony, was in love with her. Then came Tilley, The Titante widow's maiden name was|two years older than Keicher, and a Mary Graham Farquh rson, She ‘s|strong chap, Miss Filber preferred Til- the daughter of Frank Farquharson of|tey to Kelcher and returned the lat« 417 Riverside Drive, She and Mr. Mar- ring. vin, a son of Harry N. Marvin of No, ‘oor Tead 30 Riverside Drive, were married|sort of boy," March 12, 1911 He was a law student | morning. in Columbia, “He and my daughter were never en- Mr. and Mra, Marvin cut short @ four] guged and I have been told before that months' honeymoon in Europe and/he had something the matter wich his The simple ceremony was witnessed by 800 persons. Among them were Mrs. he| his brothers and hi: isters-In-law. he always w Mra. @ atckly Filbert said this One slumberer USUAL - I'M GOING TO TAKE E 8.39 TONIGHT | GROSSING GATES SMASH | Keicher left his home, No. 4519 Third] the Fourth Avenue Station, “but Tilley | |!t reached the crossing. By rr Copyniant ‘The THE SCHEDULE TWO WEEKS AGO — THE 7.44 IS THE ! | News Oddities DUBLIN AGITATOR LARKIN’'S reception at Ellis Islapd may make | him fiery*cross, . | ‘ ‘ JACKASS Is a horse for law purposes, Washington court decides, urkey hash and dyspepsia tablets, MAN IN A PANAMA HAT appeered on Broadway. TO-DAY'S MENU: MUNICIPAL COUNSELLORS of Paris gave themselves a Christmae present by increasing their own pay $360 a year. TURKEY RAFFLES having been forbidden in Kearney and Ariingtoa, J., saloons, the lquor dealers retaliated by stopping raffles in churches, | SEVERAL EGGNOG PARTIES were given in Washington, the Prest- dent and Secretary Bryan both being out of town. WOMAN he!d up and robbed in Paterson said {t served her right for not doing her Christmas shopping earlier. Tilley and were searching for him : last night. They think shat the two) were talking about Mies Filber when Rete mt his temper and began | | seine nena acne eee) TO) CTBEET WHEN (AR HITS THEIR AUTOBUS AUTO, SAVE TWO LIVES quaintanbe, and the two engaged in a Car Beyond Control Speeds Toward | Chauffeur of Limousine Makes Fhank O'Connor, No. 4717 Third | Path of Central Express Train at Elizabeth. Two men in an automobile missed death by a few seconds Inst evening, when their car crashed through the sates of the Central Railroad at the Elizabeth avenue crossing, Blizabeth, ., while an express train was approach: Ing, The gates wrecked the machine, but there were only a few feet to spare. Alexander Witheral told the police | that hin auto became unmanageable as Effort to Pass Party Cut -- for Christmas Ride. Twelve c! ren belonging to a New- ark Sunday school, out for a Christmas drive in an witobus in Bast Orange, N. Jy were thrown out when that vehicle ¢ into collision with a Umousine car owned by EB. W. Blvere / ton, No, 10 Park street, Montclair, a New York business man. Mrs, Elverson and her daughter were thrown to the street and bruised. ‘The chauffeur of the Elverson tried to pass ‘the bus, misjudged bis jstance and struck it in the reap, setting It and spilling the childrem upork ¥ >. ion, | the curb, ‘The limousine was also tipped ~ © The two men in the auto were taken| Ver and the women were spilled to the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital, cut| through # door. Mr. Elverson was able and bruixed, The man in the machine ‘0 retain his seat and escaped with. | with Witheral gave his name am A. J,/ out injury. Peterson of Oak street, Rahway, which Francia A, Nott, Recorder of Orange, Is the home of the chauffeur. picMed up Ernest Hober, No. 09 South CONVENTIONS IN HOMES. Twentieth street, Newark, and Beatrice —/ | ellington, No, 68 South Twentieth The Woman Suffrage Party of Queens | *tTeet: the two children most seriquely plans to do much It] hurt, and took them home. Both were \, was announced badly bruised, sembly district con 0 Other automobiliata reacued the other OS Ae cee scnaw Tne Baas ten children and Mrs, and Misa Elver- Johnston, No. M4 son and carried them to their respec- Antorla, tve home Second District, Church in the Gar- dens, Astoria, Third District, home of Mrs. Robert Stork, Hollywood Park, Far Rockaway, Fourth District, home of Mrs. Wi!!am L, Remsen, No. 4% Union avenue, Jamaics The borough convention will be held Jan. 20 at the home of Mrs. Alfred J. Eno, Jamaica, (a ees TO INSTALL $25,000 ORGAN. Workmen will begin to-day the tn- atallation of a great organ in the new Church of St. Jean Baptiate, at Lex- ington avenue and Seventy-sixth The ‘lagman had lowered the gates and was swing- ing a red lantern. The auto crashed into the gates with enough force to/ smash them and the front of the ma-| chine and cause the latter's sudden Franklin street, booked on the Titanic, Just before that| heart. Even after le returned his ring he would come often to our ho end he was alxays welcrme, ile was! 4 nice, clean boy, | herself, But she clung to him. Sailors were forced to take her off by main Ufted “WIL Tilley also fs a nice boy. 1] force In the last boat that left the|x.ow he had nothing whatever to do doomed vessel, with Teddy's death,"* Mr. and Mrs. De Camp have planned The police also helleve thar Welcher | died from a weak heart and over- | exertion but they want to talk with /a long honeymoon. They will visit the Panama Canal | y for the winter. —_>—--- SERVIA AND BULGARIA BURY THE HATCHET. SOFTA, Dee, 26. lle Diplomatic relations Bulgaria have been resumed, The second Ralkan war grew out of Prem the oh & Reoont.Merald.) Hs onpee ta fall back on gongally fi (haa they ere wen he dalla CHILDREN TAKE ““GASCARETS” WHEN CROSS, CONSTIPATED—DIME A BOX CASCARETS WORK WHILE YOU SLEER <3 oss, ue street, which was bullt by Mr. and Mrs, Thomas F. Ryan and will pave cost, when entirely equipped, fully $500,000, The exterior Is finished and parta of the Intertor are being used, It Is hoped to consecrate tt next fall, 5.000, nouncement is made of the deleation of the Instrument on the nigat of Jan | 4. Prof, Gaston M. Dethter will pre- side at the organ. THE HIT OF THE SEASON SATEEN MADRAS 2 FOR 23— EARL & WILSON BEST PRODUCE MAKERS OF TROY'S { 7A lost or toma articles nde wil be formas | ae John Is Dead. uarrels over the division of Ottoman el territory among the allies after they iN cledle 10, fi 4 Sliven Areade, “Park Row; | World's After her baby John, flve weeks old, had conquered the Turks tn Europe. Any child will gladly take Concarals (stommneb and puts the liver ina healthy Uptown. Office, A) pool ss y Ci ie,” ie) cf ° 1On. had coughed all day yesterday, Mra, servia was the first to turn on Bulgaria | Candy Cathartic,” which acts gent Full directions for children and grown- Hertha Wolfe, of No, 22 Willis Avenue, ana was followed by Greece and Rou-| never gripe or produce the slightest un- ups in each package the Hronx, decided about dusk to sve Mana Montenegro aloo declared hos- | casiness~ though cleanses the little one’s Mothers cap rest eas, giv’ o 202 him vome cough miature, She gut a Wit te Bulwaila, bur did noe ‘wail’ | Constipated Bowels, sweetens the this gentle, harmless lax ; tigh bottle, poured out two tablespoonfus ‘eat ented eTtaur Tats eland gave it to the chill, Aw she rec! . ul ara, a bia Roun a's con> i turned the bottle to the stelf sh ditions and agreet ta the torms of peace | ‘